CMST 3CY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Super Mario Bros. 2, Lara Croft, Advertising In Video Games
5 Jan 2018
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Creative play is like a spring that bubbles from deep within a child. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Play is our brain"s favourite way of learning (despite what teachers may think) Culture arises and unfolds in and as play. A child loves his play, not because it"s easy, but because it"s hard. It has purpose, a child uses and thinks in their imagination. Action: star wars: there"s some sort of action involved, someone moving. Strategy: lego creator island, you can do some sort of creation. 75% more boys and men played vg than girls and women. Both boys and girls have to learn to work with computers. Tomb raider (lara croft): killer female with big breasts. 50% more boys and men play vg than girls and women. People looking at lara croft as an object so much, ad not as an action hero. Barbie tell us what you hear, see (2014)
